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Murray · Shows & fairs

Shows & fairs, 1901

200 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 10

The Hospital Carnival

The Independent · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 2

On Monday next the annual Carnival in aid of the funds of the Hospital will be held on the show grounds, and providing the weather is favourable for an…

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The Hospital Carnival

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 9 November 1901 · page 2

The annual hospital carnival will be held on Monday. Being observed throughout the State as the King’s Birthday , Monday will be a a public holiday, and with fine weather a very…

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The Cup Carnival

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 11 November 1901 · page 3

Melbourne is, par excellence, the racing city, and to miss a Melbourne Cup, is to lose one of the sight of a life time…

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Fancy Fair

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 14 November 1901 · page 2

The Fancy Fair and Sale of Work was opened on Wednesday evening by Mr G. A. Miller in the Carrington Rink…

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The Hospital Carnival

The Independent · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 4

[?] and Hayes No 2-Messrs A. T. Jones, Shaw, Rout, Sparrow, M. J. Maher, P. W…

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The Melbourne Cup Carnival

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 19

The great racing event of the year is once more an accomplished fact, and the win of Revenue has added thousands of pounds to the banking account of the owner and those…

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A Show Segretary's Trial

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 29

The lot of the average show secretary is not always a happy one. An exasperated member of the fraternity seeks some satisfaction by drafting a supposed advertisement:—"Wanted…

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Fancy Fair and Sale of Work. In Aid of Wesleyan Church

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 2

The fancy fair and sale of work, in aid of the funds of the Wesleyan Church, was opened on Wednesday evening, in the Carrington Rink…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Society of Deniliquin. Annual Meeting

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 November 1901 · page 2

The annual meeting of the members of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society of Deniliquin was held on Thursday afternoon at the Royal Hotel. The following gentlemen were…

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The Hospital Carnival

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 16 November 1901 · page 2

The annual hospital carnival took place [?] Monday and although the receipts from [?] gathering will amount to a fairly [?] sum, they fall far behind the total [?]…

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At a Village Flower Show

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 November 1901 · page 1

An amusing incident is reported in connection with a flower show in the North of England. One of the classes—cut roses—was open…

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Correspondence. Fair Play Is Bonnie Plat. to the Editor of the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 November 1901 · page 35

SIR,—This is an age of misrepresentation, and the man whose voice is attuned so as to tickle the ear of the hydra-headed public gains the day. Yet there is a large section…

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Show Your Tickets, Please

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 December 1901 · page 1

‘There is a great amount of difference in the way in which people produce and give up their tickets,’ said a railway inspector, ‘and I have often thought that…

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Alls Fair in Love

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 December 1901 · page 1

MR. WIGGLES was to marry Irene Maltravers, Wiggles was a…

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Boxing Day at Chiltern. Grand Sports' Carnival

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1901 · page 18

A grand sports' meeting will be held ab Chiltern in aid of the H.A.C. B. Society on 26th December, when a grand programme of miscellaneous events will be run off. The…

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If Women Went to War! the Fair Soldiers Who Might Command

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 18 December 1901 · page 2

Women do not nowadays go to war, but there are matty noted women in the world to-day who are nominally soldiers. Military enthusiasm is very marked in the German…

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Show in England. London

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 December 1901 · page 2

Snow 16 feet deep is being experienced in Derbyshire, where the railways are still blocked…

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Science. Danger at the Fair

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 21 December 1901 · page 2

WE are sorry to have to place on record two fatalities that seriously affect the desirability of that most enjoyable form of…

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Exhibition Day at St. Mark's Primary School, Hay

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 23 December 1901 · page 2

The break-up concert and distribution of prizes took place at the school last Friday forenoon in the presence of a large number of friends and…

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Show-off Female Bathers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 December 1901 · page 27

A correspondent of the Glasgow Weekly Herald, describing the daily scene witnessed on the beach of the famous U.S. bathing resort, Atlantic City, says it outrages all…

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